Tech mergers and acquisitions are tough. Especially when both buyer and seller are tech businesses. Tech acquisitions by private equity firms, on the other hand, usually go better. Buyers rarely try to take the wheel. Sellers can continue to direct… Read more ›

Kevin Mayer rises about the mud fight otherwise known as competition to be the best. In a story titled “TikTok chief Kevin Mayer launches stinging attack on Facebook”  Hannah Murphy reports on Mayer’s 800 word defense of TikTok. Mayer is… Read more ›

AMD second quarter 2020 earnings report bolsters notion work from home theme has legs. In a story titled “AMD Reported Earnings. Why the Stock Is Soaring Nearly 10%“, Max Cherney quotes Lisa Su, CEO: “…we are raising our full-year revenue… Read more ›

Compliance is important for edge computing developers, at least as Eric Prince, CEO of Cloudflare sees it. In a story written by Thomas Claburn and published on Monday, July 27, 2020, titled “Cloudflare’s new serverless platform lets its Workers run… Read more ›

CEO gaffes can be very costly. Bob Swan’s presentation as CEO during Intel’s Q2 2020 Earnings Conference has to go down as one of the most costly bloopers in recent memory. Tony Owusu’s story “Intel’s Big Chip Delay What Wall… Read more ›

Eric Savitz’s story for Barrons, “Microsoft Stock’s Rally Stalls, Why Analysts Are Cautious” is but one example of typical Wall Street coverage of tech companies. Early stage senior management at software businesses can and should learn from it. Ira Michael… Read more ›

We comment on a story written by Jared Council, titled “Enterprise-Tech Startups Focused on Risk, Security, Attract Venture Dollars“. Key takeaways: BigID secured financing from SAP S.E. in 2017, prior to the current VC round. Council’s story includes clues about… Read more ›

Robots become mission critical in 2020. In a story titled “The Virus Means Robots Are the Future of Work. Rockwell Stock is Upgraded” Al Root reports on a big upgrade on Rockwell Automation by Andrew Kaplowitz, an analyst for Citigroup.… Read more ›

IBM second quarter earnings report for 2020 makes news. Most analysts applaud an earnings beat and better than expected revenue. But some are skeptical a 30% jump in cloud business can be sustained. We think differently. A reported drop of… Read more ›